top 100 generals in history

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I have been working on developing a list of the top 100 generals in history. Obviously, this has been done before. Michael Lee Lanning created a list of "influential" generals, which in his mind apparently meant "Anglo-American." I really do not like his rankings. I have seen other good lists, both by Travis Congleton and by Spartan here on this forum. My list is based upon theirs. 　　 　　I'd like to have a wide variety of countries and eras represented. Of course, much of the ranking is subjective anyway... I hope this will be very educational, and thus I have been developing a database with useful information about the generals in many catagories (probably like Travis Congleton's Portfolios--only less in depth). 　　 　　I'd like all the comments I can get on this list. If you see anybody I've left out, tell me why I should put them in. The list is based primarily on strategic and tactical prowess. 　　 　　EDIT: This is Version 5 of the list, with comments through page 27 considered. There wasn't room in the post to leave the original list on here, so some of the posts won't make a lot of sense--they may refer to names that aren't even on here anymore. 　　 　　Ranking Name Born Died Country 　　1 Alexander the Great 356 BC 323 BC Macedonia 　　2 Napoleon Bonaparte 1769 1821 France 　　3 Temujin (Genghis Khan) 1167 1227 Mongols 　　4 Hannibal Barca 241 BC 183 BC Carthage 　　5 John Churchill (Duke of Marlborough) 1650 1722 England 　　6 Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne de Turenne 1611 1675 France 　　7 Jan Žižka 1370 1424 Bohemia 　　8 Heraclius 575 641 Byzantines 　　9 Aleksandr Suvorov 1729 1800 Russia 　　10 Belisarios 505 565 Byzantines 　　11 Gustav II Adolf 1594 1632 Sweden 　　12 Timur 1336 1405 Turks 　　13 Subotai 1248 Mongols 　　14 Eugene of Savoy 1663 1736 Austria 　　15 Gaius Julius Caesar 100 BC 44 BC Rome 　　16 Frederick II of Prussia 1712 1786 Prussia 　　17 Khalid ibn al-Walid 584 642 Arabs 　　18 Scipio Africanus the Older 237 BC 183 BC Rome 　　19 Louis Nicholas Davout 1770 1823 France 　　20 Raimondo Montecuccoli 1608 1680 Austria 　　21 Gaius Marius 157 BC 86 BC Rome 　　22 Cyrus the Great 590 BC 529 BC Persia 　　23 Sir Arthur Wellesley (Duke of Wellington) 1769 1852 England 　　24 Maurice, comte de Saxe 1696 1750 France 　　25 Erich von Manstein 1887 1973 Germany 　　26 Thutmose III ca 1540 BC Egypt 　　27 Heinz Wilhelm Guderian 1888 1954 Germany 　　28 Selim I 1470 1520 Ottomans 　　29 Philip II of Macedon 382 BC 336 BC Macedonia 　　30 Maurice of Nassau 1567 1625 Netherlands 　　31 Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé 1621 1686 France 　　32 George Kastrioti (Skanderbeg) 1405 1468 Albania 　　33 Leo III the Isaurian 685 741 Byzantines 　　34 Hán Xìn 196 BC China 　　35 Nadir Shah 1688 1747 Persia 　　36 Trần Hưng Đạo 1228 1300 Vietnam 　　37 Winfield Scott 1786 1866 United States 　　38 Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (El Gran Capitán) 1453 1515 Spain 　　39 Epaminondas 418 BC 362 BC Greece 　　40 Robert E. Lee 1807 1870 Confederate 　　41 Lucius Cornelius Sulla 138 BC 78 BC Rome 　　42 Hamilcar Barca 270 BC 228 BC Carthage 　　43 Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke 1800 1891 Prussia 　　44 Mehmed II 1432 1481 Ottomans 　　45 Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 1616 Japan 　　46 Tiglath-Pileser III 727 BC Assyria 　　47 Babur 1483 1530 Mughal 　　48 Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby 1861 1936 England 　　49 Janos Hunyadi 1387 1456 Hungary 　　50 Chandragupta Maurya 298 BC India 　　51 Duke of Parma (Alessandro Farnese) 1545 1592 Spain 　　52 Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson 1824 1863 Confederate 　　53 Yue Fei 1103 1142 China 　　54 Narses 478 573 Byzantines 　　55 Oda Nobunaga 1534 1582 Japan 　　56 Stanisław Koniecpolski 1590 1646 Poland 　　57 Louis Joseph de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme 1654 1712 France 　　58 Aurelian (Lucius Domitius Aurelianus) 214 275 Rome 　　59 Suleiman I 1494 1566 Ottomans 　　60 Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck 1870 1964 Germany 　　61 Alexius I Komnenos 1048 1118 Byzantines 　　62 Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars 1653 1734 France 　　63 Konstantin Rokossovsky 1896 1968 Russia 　　64 Charles XII 1682 1718 Sweden 　　65 Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1536 1598 Japan 　　66 Albrecht Wallenstein 1583 1634 Austria 　　67 Jan III Sobieski 1629 1696 Poland 　　68 Georgy Zhukov 1896 1974 Russia 　　69 Qi Jiguang 1528 1588 China 　　70 Simeon I the Great 864 927 Bulgaria 　　71 André Masséna 1758 1817 France 　　72 Robert Guiscard 1015 1085 Normandy 　　73 Erwin Rommel 1891 1944 Germany 　　74 Emperor Taizong of Tang (Lĭ ShìMín) 599 649 China 　　75 Flavius Stilicho 359 408 Rome 　　76 Jean Lannes 1769 1809 France 　　77 Charlemagne 742 814 France 　　78 Ulysses Simpson Grant 1822 1885 United States 　　79 Kangxi 1654 1722 China 　　80 Shapur I 272 Persia 　　81 Marcus Claudius Marcellus 268 BC 208 BC Rome 　　82 Gerd von Rundstedt 1875 1953 Germany 　　83 Johan t'Serclaes, Count of Tilly 1559 1632 Austria 　　84 Sebastien Le prestre de Vauban 1633 1707 France 　　85 François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville (Luxembourg) 1628 1695 France 　　86 David 965 BC Israel 　　87 Constantine I the Great 272 337 Rome 　　88 Wolter von Plettenberg 1450 1535 Livonian Order 　　89 Sun Tzu 400 BC 330 BC China 　　90 Pyrrhus of Epirus 312 BC 272 BC Greece 　　91 Archduke Charles of Austria 1771 1847 Austria 　　92 Alp Arslan 1029 1072 Turks 　　93 Jebe 1225 Mongols 　　94 Shaka Zulu 1787 1828 Zulu 　　95 Edward III 1312 1377 England 　　96 Mahmud of Ghazni 971 1030 Ghazni 　　97 Sonni Ali 1492 Songhai 　　98 Nathanael Greene 1742 1786 United States 　　99 James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose 1612 1650 England 　　100 Sher Shah Suri 1472 1545 Afgan

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Scipio Africanus the Older 237 BC 183 BC Rome

tirstan

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 I really don't understand the meaning behind this post, I thought this is supposed to be related to watches somehow?  Besides, the subjectivity in this post is overwhelming, I just don't know how you can place Alexander the Great before Ghengkis Khan?  I think it is generally accepted that GK was the greatest conquerer this world has ever seen, and you rank him in No.3?  I think you should simply list the great military personalities and not rank them, this is absolutely futile and pointless.

harriway

i don't understand this post either.

 

but i like the little puppies :)

 

how much do they run for in china?  i want to buy one~